Outrider, a developer of autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, released fully autonomous trailer backing capabilities to its fleet. The technology enables autonomous yard trucks to back trailers into tight spaces without modifications to trailers. The post Outrider now autonomously backs up trailers in distribution yards appeared first on The Robot Report.
Recent series large investments into robotics companies, totaling nearly US $1B, could be an early indicator that 2022 will be a banner year for robotics investments. Apex.AI’s Jan Becker and Joe Speed are also interviewed. The post Does Recent Spate of Large Investments Portend a Banner Year for Robotics? appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) regulations would govern the usage of drones, piloted and autonomous, that fly far beyond their operators’ location. While drone companies and operators have to date been able to apply for special permissions for BVLOS flights, these have been issued on a case-by-case or geography-specific basis. The post BVLOS recommendations […]
Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hackerproof communication networks or quantum computers that could accelerate new drug discovery. These applications require a quantum version of a computer bit, known as a qubit, that stores quantum information. The post Researchers Set Record by Preserving Quantum States for More Than 5 Seconds appeared first on […]
There was a time when “the cloud” ran on pretty vanilla x86 architecture, save for boutique firms like Nimbix (acquired by Atos last year) that pioneered the use of then-exotic hardware like GPUs and FPGAs and other Intel alternatives. If further evidence was needed of the blossoming diversity of architectures offered in the cloud, that […]
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced its six recipients of the 2022 Engelberger Robotics Awards: Michael P. Jacobs of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), Oussama Khatib of Stanford University, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics, Bertil Thorvaldsson of ABB, Bruno Siciliano of the University of Naples and Melonee Wise of Zebra Technologies. A3 will present three […]
2021 set a new record for number of robots sold in North America with 39,708 units, according the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Those sales were valued at $2 billion. Robot sales rose 28% from 2020 to 2021, jumping from 31,044 units in 2020. Fifty-eight percent of those orders came from outside of the automotive […]
Bringing your startup from a prototype to production at a large scale is a daunting challenge. There’s no roadmap that’s going to work for every robotics startup, but there are general trends in the industry that startups can learn from. The post 3 rules for taking a prototype to production appeared first on The Robot […]
Last week, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began preparing for a three-month long process of aligning the 18 hexagonal mirror segments that make up the telescope’s mirror. The process begins by moving each segment upwards by just 12.5 mm. The post The robots that helped build the James Webb Telescope appeared first on The Robot […]
The race to deliver quantum computing solutions that shield users from the underlying complexity of quantum computing is heating up quickly. One example is Multiverse Computing, a European company, which today launched the second financial services product in its Singularity product group. The new offering, Fair Price, “deliver[s] a higher accuracy in fair price calculations […]
